[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Andrew Traweek] “Cutting 1080p/23.976 in a 1080p/23.976 Drop sequence
If I enter “+1:00” it gives me at duration of “1:01” as expected. But subtract a frame by “+:29” it, and it jumps to “1:06″”

This is exactly as it should be. If you want one frame less then a second you need to enter 23 frames, not 29 since you’re cutting 24p. If you enter more frames then are in a second then they spill over and you get 1:06.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Wait…. are you saying you’re running Premiere on windows using parallels?

I used to do that, it was disastrously slow. Rebooting fully into windows was night and day faster. I didn’t have as much RAM though.

And I’ll echo what the others have said, USB2 just doen’t even remotely cut it for editing in Premiere. Vegas is probably doing agressive cashing or something and that’s why it works.

JM

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Travis Brown] “Do you recommend applying the Fill Left effect to all the audio or just the audio that has been recorded from my camera?”

You only need to apply the fill left effect to the audio that was recorded by the camera with the phase issue.

And to answer your other question, the Beachtek preamp will work fine because that TRS plug on it will have stereo audio on it.

If you have any skill with a soldering iron or know someone who does (or live in central virginia) making an adapter for your self would be the cheapest solution here.

You need an adapter that connects the Tip and Ring of the 1/8th inch plug to the #2 pin on the XLR. Pins 1 and 3 need to be jumped together and connected to the sleeve of the 1/8th inch plug.

This will feed an identical signal to the Left and Right channels in your camera and you can just forget there was ever problem.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Travis Brown] “When using the Fill Left effect, does this mean it’s not true stereo?”

Right, but it never was Stereo. In all these configs you still started with only one mic in the beginning. Just cause you have two audio channels and two speakers doesn’t make it stereo. (Though your sound effects and music probably are stereo. The fill left effect won’t change those unless you apply it to everything, such as applying it to an already finished video.)

The reason it sounds different is that even when you were listening to two separate speakers before, there was still phase cancelation going on, just not enough to make the audio completely disappear. Now, after applying Fill left, you’re finally hearing what the audio really sounds like.

JM

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Travis Brown] “So… because the camera is recording the audio on the Left channel and a flipped version one the Right channel – these get canceled out when played from mono devices?”

That’s it! This is what happens any time you mix Stereo and Balanced connections without the proper adapters.

Note, if you get a basic XLR to 1/8″ TS adapter, chances are you will only get audio recorded in the left channel because nothing is being fed to the right channel. It’s possible your camera is smart enough to notice that the middle connector is shorted to ground and record the mono signal to both channels, but you’ll have no way to know until you test this. It’s also possible there’s a menu setting.

Usually you want a Preamp between the mic and the camera. Most Professional Mics won’t even work when plugged directly into a camera with a simple adapter.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Bingo. There’s your problem. You have the wrong adapter.

I’ll bet your adapter is an XLR to 1/8″ TRS. (which is wrong) You need a XLR to 1/8″ TS adapter (No middle band on the plug)

The Mic outputs a balanced signal. What that means is that it’s sending two versions of the same signal, one 180º out of phase to the other. Because you have the wrong adapter, that balanced singal is going straight into the camera, which is recording stereo, which results in the main signal on the Left channel, and that 180º flipped signal on the Right channel.

Applying the “Fill left” effect will fix the problem.

JM

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

If none of the clips overlap, then you can bring them down in batches.

First, zoom out so you can see the entire timeline.

Then drag a selection around the top half of the clips (in the example above that would be the clips on video tracks 6-10

drag all these clips down until the lowest clip hits video 2. Don’t release the mouse!

Hold Shift, this will lock all the video files in place and let you drag up on the linked audio files until the highest one hits audio 1.

Now repeat these steps, to condense everything which is now on video 1-5 to just 1-3

Repeat two more times and you’re done.

This seems like a lot of work but since it’s cumulative the number of drags down increases by the exponents of the next power of two. Or, in simple english, 200 clips should take 8 drags.

JM

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Rather then try and make the XML work, why not just re-import the image?

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Try this:

You have all the main clips on Video 1 and all the transitions on video 2 correct?

Make sure only video 2 is selected then

Enter Trim mode by hitting T

And then use

Option/Alt + Shift + Right or Option/Alt + Shift + left will adjust each edit 5 frames left or right.
T
he down arrow will take you to the next edit.

If you want a number other then 5 you can change the “large trim offset” in the trim preferences.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Yep, quite easy. (in CS6 anyway, I can’t test this in any other versions)

To set this up, you need to do three things.

1 All the clips (other then the repeated transition clip) need to be in a bin in the order that you want them.

2 you need to assign a shortcut to “open in source monitor” in the project panel.

3 Copy the repeated clip to the clipboard.

Start with the project panel selected and the first clip highlighted

Then automate this sequence:

1) [shortcut for open in source monitor] (this opens the clip in the source monitor)

2) , (thats a comma, which does an insert edit)

3) Shift + 3 (selects the timeline panel)

4) Cmd/Ctl + V (pastes the repeated clip)

5) Shift + 1 (selects the project panel again)

6) Down-arrow key (selects the next clip in the list)